Contents

Foreword to the Paperback Edition

Preface

Introduction: After the Revolution

Part One: Disruptions

1: Consent and Sovereignty

  • Corporate Superpowers
  • Legitimacy

2: Rise of the Digital Commons

  • The Technical Commons
  • Activism
  • Balance of Power

Part Two: Control 2.0

3: Networked Authoritarianism

4: Variants and Permutations

Part Three: Democracy’s Challenges

5: Eroding Accountability

  • Surveillance
  • WikiLeaks and Controversial Speech

6: Democratic Censorship

  • Intentions Versus Consequences
  • Saving the Children

7: Copywars

  • Shunning Due Process
  • Aiding Authoritarianism
  • Lobbynomics

Part Four: Sovereigns of Cyberspace

8: Corporate Censorship

  • Net Neutrality
  • Mobile Complications
  • Big Brother Apple

9: Do No Evil

  • Chinese Lessons
  • Flickr Fail
  • Buzz Bust
  • Privacy and Facebook

10: Facebookistan and Googledom

  • Double Edge
  • Inside the Leviathan
  • Google Governance
  • Implications

Part Five: What Is to Be Done?

11: Trust, but Verify

  • The Regulation Problem
  • Shared Value
  • The Global Network Initiative
  • Lessons from Other Industries

12: In Search of “Internet Freedom” Policy

  • Washington Squabbles
  • Goals and Methods
  • Democratic Discord
  • Civil Society Pushes Back

13: Global Internet Governance

  • The United Nations Problem
  • ICANN—Can You?

14: Building a Netizen-Centric Internet

  • Strengthening the Citizen Commons
  • Expanding the Technical Commons
  • Utopianism Versus Reality
  • Getting Political
  • Corporate Transparency and Netizen Participation
  • Personal Responsibility

Afterword to the Paperback Edition

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